Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/11

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Subject: RE: Oxymorons and pre-visualization
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 10:10:35 -0800

At 09:15 AM 11/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I would personally define pre-visualization in photography as:  the=20
>process of forming a mental image of how a photo will appear in it's=20
>final form.
>

Webster defines "pre" as :

Main Entry: pre-
Function: prefix
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French & Latin; Old French, from Latin
prae-, from prae in front of, before -- more at FOR
1 a (1) : earlier than : prior to : before <Precambrian> <prehistoric> (2)
: preparatory or prerequisite to <premedical> b : in advance : beforehand=20

and Webster defines "visualization" as:

Main Entry: vi=B7su=B7al=B7i=B7za=B7tion
Pronunciation: "vi-zh&-w&-l&-'zA-sh&n, "vi-zh&-l&-, "vizh-w&-l&-
Function: noun
1 : formation of mental visual images
2 : the act or process of interpreting in visual terms or of putting into
visible form

Therefore, to pre-visualize, you must form a mental visual image before
forming a mental visual image.

All joking aside, we all know what pre-visualization means by the way
people use it. But I think the term should simply be visualize. "I can
visualize what my end result will be." I don't think it's possible to
"pre-visualize what my end result will be." Unless we can go back in time.

I'll stop now. This isn't Leica stuff, or even related. And I don't believe
Lanting uses a Leica.

Jim